Related Content in 100 words: An Update
Related Content will provide an easy way for people visiting a Drupal-powered newspaper site to connect articles to past reports,…
A Collage of Business Models from NewsTools2008
Some of the most interesting discussions and demonstrations at last week’s NewsTools2008 conference Silicon Valley centered around making the changing…
How do you decide on friend requests?
If you belong to social media sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn Twitter, Flickr, et al, you probably face this…
Top 5 Week Ninety-Seven
Yahoo alone Microsoft drops bid, so pressure’s on Yahoo Maker Faire 2008 Burning Man meets a high school science fair…
Insights into News Games through Eyetracking / Usability
I’ve been terrible about blogging…it’s just not in my daily routine…so I’ve been letting others on our Knight grant team…
Newspapers Struggling Online, Not Just in Print
As disturbing as the recent numbers on declining print circulation and plunging advertising revenue at newspapers have been, less attention…
Takeover Tiff Best Thing to Happen to Yahoo
Microsoft made what appeared to be its last bid for Yahoo at $33 per share, and Yahoo wanted $37. Microsoft…
Finding Local Community Online
I’ve been thinking a lot about just how “local” most people want to be online. The greatest myth about the…
This Reporter Becomes a Participant at an Unconference
Are you going to be part of the problem or part of the solution? That’s a question you hear a…
Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
At EveryBlock, where my main role is to work with municipal governments to uncover new data sets, we’re experimenting with…